ifelse | R Documentation |
ifelse
returns a value with the same shape as
test
which is filled with elements selected
from either yes
or no
depending on whether the element of test
is TRUE
or FALSE
.
ifelse(test, yes, no)
test |
an object which can be coerced to logical mode. |
yes |
return values for true elements of |
no |
return values for false elements of |
If yes
or no
are too short, their elements are recycled.
yes
will be evaluated if and only if any element of test
is true, and analogously for no
.
Missing values in test
give missing values in the result.
A vector of the same length and attributes (including dimensions and
"class"
) as test
and data values from the values of
yes
or no
. The mode of the answer will be coerced from
logical to accommodate first any values taken from yes
and then
any values taken from no
.
The mode of the result may depend on the value of test
(see the
examples), and the class attribute (see oldClass
) of the
result is taken from test
and may be inappropriate for the
values selected from yes
and no
.
Sometimes it is better to use a construction such as
(tmp <- yes; tmp[!test] <- no[!test]; tmp)
, possibly extended to handle missing values in test
.
Further note that if(test) yes else no
is much more efficient
and often much preferable to ifelse(test, yes, no)
whenever
test
is a simple true/false result, i.e., when
length(test) == 1
.
The srcref
attribute of functions is handled specially: if
test
is a simple true result and yes
evaluates to a function
with srcref
attribute, ifelse
returns yes
including
its attribute (the same applies to a false test
and no
argument). This functionality is only for backwards compatibility, the
form if(test) yes else no
should be used whenever yes
and
no
are functions.
Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.
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x <- c(6:-4) sqrt(x) #- gives warning sqrt(ifelse(x >= 0, x, NA)) # no warning ## Note: the following also gives the warning ! ifelse(x >= 0, sqrt(x), NA) ## ifelse() strips attributes ## This is important when working with Dates and factors x <- seq(as.Date("2000-02-29"), as.Date("2004-10-04"), by = "1 month") ## has many "yyyy-mm-29", but a few "yyyy-03-01" in the non-leap years y <- ifelse(as.POSIXlt(x)$mday == 29, x, NA) head(y) # not what you expected ... ==> need restore the class attribute: class(y) <- class(x) y ## This is a (not atypical) case where it is better *not* to use ifelse(), ## but rather the more efficient and still clear: y2 <- x y2[as.POSIXlt(x)$mday != 29] <- NA ## which gives the same as ifelse()+class() hack: stopifnot(identical(y2, y)) ## example of different return modes (and 'test' alone determining length): yes <- 1:3 no <- pi^(1:4) utils::str( ifelse(NA, yes, no) ) # logical, length 1 utils::str( ifelse(TRUE, yes, no) ) # integer, length 1 utils::str( ifelse(FALSE, yes, no) ) # double, length 1
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